Where does “Rundschreiben” come from?
Rundschreiben (German) comes from German Rund, from French rond, from Old French reont, from Latin retundus, from Latin rotundus, from Latin rotō, from Latin Rota, from Proto-Italic rotā — to run.
Rundschreiben (German): circular, newsletter
Definitions
- circular, newsletter
Ancestry of “Rundschreiben”, step by step
Rundschreiben traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Rund
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Rund | round |
| 2 | French | rond | round; drunk; circle |
| 3 | Old French | reont | round |
| 4 | Latin | retundus | round |
| 5 | Latin | rotundus | round, circular; spherical, rotund; rounded,... |
| 6 | Latin | rotō | to turn, trend, wheel, roll, swing about, whirl, rotate; brandish |
| 7 | Latin | Rota | an ecclesiastical appellate court in the Catholic... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | rotā | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | Hróth₂-eh₂ | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | Hreth₂- | to run |
via German schreiben
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | schreiben | to write, write out; to spell, spell out; to... |
| 2 | Middle High German | schrīben | — |
| 3 | Old High German | scrīban | — |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | skrīban | to write |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | skrībaną | to write |
| 6 | Latin | scrībō | to write |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | skreiβō | to carve |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | skreybʰ- | to write |